Improvement in farm-gates



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Patefitd March 30,1875.

THE GRAPHIC (IO-PHOTOrLITH-SQ L41 PARK PLACEJLY- SAMUEL R. HOLT, orWORTHINGTON, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARM-GATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 161,337, dated March30, 1875 application filed July 22, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL R. HOLT, of Worthington, in the county ofFranklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Gates; andIdo hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact descriptlon of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it ertains to make and use it,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part ofthis specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in gates.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 isa plan View, in horizontal section, of the same, showing my method ofslotting the pales or pickets of my gate, and also the course taken bythe stringers in the same.

My invention consists in the parts and combin ations, as hereinafterspecified and claimed, wherein A A are two upright posts, from one ofwhich the gate swings. B are stringers, of wire or light wrought-iron. Care pickets or pales, placed at an incline, as shown in the drawings. Inthe pales (J are provided slots 0, at such an angle to the length of thepicket as to permit the horizontal passage of the stringers B. Theseslots are arranged horizontally upon one side and tlie'other, upon thebody of the picket, and are made of a depth sufficiently beyond themiddle of the picket to admit of the wire passing substantially throughthe center of the same. In placing the picket upon the stringers B theslots (J are made to face alternately in opposite directions against thestringer B in such a manner that the stringers and pickets are woventogether.

I am perfectly aware that gates and panels have been constructed withthe pickets strung upon stringers by holes made through them; also, thatfences have been constructed with vertical pickets woven on thehorizontal stringers; this, therefore, I do not claim.

The main feature of my invention, however, consists in inclining thepales and providing the slots 0 toaccommodate the horizontal passage ofthe stringers B. By this provision the par ts act as mutual bracings toeach other, and constitute an exceedingly safe panel, and one capable ofbearing great weight or pressure without sagging.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The gate herein described, composed of the end vertical posts A,horizontal stringers B, and pickets 0', said pickets provided onalternate faces with slots 0, and placed or woven in an inclined orslanting position on the horizontal stringers B, substantially as andfor the purposes described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this21st day of July, 1874.

SAMUEL B. HOLT.

I'Vitnesses: v

LEVERE'IT L. LEGGETT, J. TYLER POWELL.

